Vatican City, 16 January 2015 (VIS) –
From 13 to 15 January the superiors of the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith met with the presidents or representatives of
the Doctrinal Commissions of the European Episcopal Conferences at
the St. Adalbert Centre in Esztergom, Hungary. It was attended by,
among others, Cardinal Gerhard L. Muller, prefect of the Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop Luis F. Ladaria S.J.,
secretary of the same dicastery, and representatives of the various
doctrinal commissions.
The meeting began with the reading of a
letter from Pope Francis addressed to the participants, in which he
emphasised that the initiative sought to enhance the role of local
Episcopates, and in particular their Doctrinal Commissions, “in
their responsibility for the unity and integrity of the faith” and
its transmission to the young. With reference his apostolic
exhortation “Evangelii Gaudium”, the Pope expresses in his letter
his hope that the meeting will will contribute to finding a collegial
solution to the many doctrinal and pastoral difficulties that exist
in present-day Europe, and inspire in the faithful “a new
missionary zeal and greater openness to the transcendent dimension of
life, without which Europe risks losing the very 'humanistic spirit'
that it loves and defends”.
During the three-day meeting, which was
characterised by cordiality and a spirit of affective and effective
collegiality, a number of issues were considered in relation to the
unicity and salvific universality of Jesus Christ and the
proclamation of the Gospel as the primary task of the Church in
Europe, questions posed by gender theory, Christian anthropology and
religious freedom, and the practical issues linked to the new
evangelisation, the sacrament of reconciliation and the functioning
of the Doctrinal Commission.
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